PLATIT
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Platit AG is a Swiss company that manufactures and markets coating equipment for the manufacturing cutting tool industry.
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| Type | Private (Swiss AG) |
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| Industry | industrial engineering and manufacturing |
| Founded | 1993 |
| Headquarters | Selzach, Switzerland |
| Key people | Dominik Blösch, CEO |
| Products | surface technologies |
| Parent | BCI Group |
| Website | www.platit.com |
Platit was founded by the Blösch group in 1993 .The company’s headquarters are located in Selzach, Switzerland.[1] Subsidiaries are located in the Chicago, USA,[2] Shanghai, China, and the Czech Republic. There are 650 installations on 43 countries.[3] Platit is wholly mainly owned by BCI Group,[4] a Swiss conglomerate that focusses on products for the Swiss watch industry.
Products
PVD coatings are typically applied to cutting tools – such as drills, hobs or endmills -, molds and dies, and machine components to extend their lifetime. Typical PVD coatings include Titanium nitride (TiN), TiCN, or TiAlN, AlCrN,[5] Nanocomposites,[6] TripleCoatings3,[7] and QuadCoatings4.[8]
Platit manufactures coating units using Cathodic arc and sputtering technology to deposit PVD coatings.[9][10][11]
It is one of the technology leaders in physical vapor deposition coating technology.[12][13][14][15][16][17]